[2] His substantial three-storey buildings were designed in an Italianate style and included men's and women's wards, day rooms, offices, a grand dining hall, and a chapel.

[1] In 1981, the buildings were given a Grade II listing as "an architectural ensemble of note, incorporating the latest ideas on hospital planning and construction".

[6] By April 2003, the vast majority of the 1,200 patients had been relocated to other mental health facilities, with only 100 expected to remain in a new unit on the site.

[7] Carmarthenshire Council purchased the old hospital buildings in 2003, at a cost of £3 million, to prevent the national government using them to house asylum seekers.

[7] Hywel Dda University Health Board operate the Cwm Seren, Tudor House, and Ty Bryn psychiatric units on the original hospital's Jobswell Road site,[8] now renamed Parc Dewi Sant (St David's Park).